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4 unusual facts about Clarence Snyder


Clarence Snyder

A collection of his photographs is on display at the National Canal Museum at Two Rivers Landing in Easton, Pennsylvania.

His photo of a silhouetted staircase rising inexplicably into the sky from a construction site appeared in Life magazine and was subsequently used by Frank Zappa for the cover of the album Stairway to Heaven.

The museum has more than 1,000 photographs documenting the prominence of Bethlehem Steel, according to Lance Metz, the museum's historian.

Snyder's photos featured such memorable events as the completion of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and Madison Square Garden, and showed ships carrying iron ore, skyscrapers under construction, and molten steel being poured.



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